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[charlierc]

39 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

who ? 

Big enough to play at Accrington Stanley. Exactly.

[NorthernSoul52]

3 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Big enough to play at Accrington Stanley. Exactly.

I knew somebody was going to make that gag eventually. Just didn't want it to be me.

[Quark]

28 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Big enough to play at Accrington Stanley. Exactly.

Honestly can't decide if this warrants an upvote or a downvote

[FKA SOSOTWS]

3 hours ago, Quark said:

I think it's still reasonable to a point.  Yes I can go onto a service and find songs by someone and see their back catalogue, so agree there's scope to go and listen and discover, and limited to be able to say "who's that?"

 

But at the same time it's fine in the context or recognising any songs, knowing them if you hear them etc. I can go and reel off a list of tracks by Bad Bunny like a Wikipedia entry, but I still don't know them.

 

If someone's using "I don't know them" as shorthand for "festival's gone" then sure, they can do one.  But even in this day and age it's fine not to know an artist. There's so much music available it would be weirder to know everyone.

 

But why even say anything if you don't know an act? There's usually a massive arrogance associated with people commenting "who?", as if the sun revolves around them.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Love to barge into a thread on a foodies forum to loudly announce that I've never heard of a chicken korma.

[Quark]

21 minutes ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

 

But why even say anything if you don't know an act? There's usually a massive arrogance associated with people commenting "who?", as if the sun revolves around them.

 

Depends on the thread, and depends on the person.  If someone pops onto a thread just to say "who" and they've got no history of engagement or involvement other than saying stuff like that, they're probably being a tit.

 

If it's somewhere like this, which is often more like a load of ongoing pub conversations slowed down to a crawl, and it's a poster who's engaged in the conversations, then it would be perfectly normal to say it.  If I was having a pub chat and someone said to me "Oh I see that Ichiko Aoba is playing Glastonbury" it'd be perfectly normal for my response to be "Who?" or "Nope, never heard of 'em".

[Quark]

That's how you discover new stuff.  You don't know it, you engage in a conversation about it, you go and try it. You like it or you don't.

 

If people aren't allowed to comment until they go away and do some research then it's not a discussion thread. Becomes incredibly elitist.

[Quark]

21 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Love to barge into a thread on a foodies forum to loudly announce that I've never heard of a chicken korma.

You probably do tbf 😁

[CaledonianGonzo]

9 minutes ago, Quark said:

You probably do tbf 😁

 

Still traumatised from logging on to cookdandbombd to tell them I'd never heard of Rik Mayall.

[FKA SOSOTWS]

27 minutes ago, Quark said:

 

Depends on the thread, and depends on the person.  If someone pops onto a thread just to say "who" and they've got no history of engagement or involvement other than saying stuff like that, they're probably being a tit.

 

If it's somewhere like this, which is often more like a load of ongoing pub conversations slowed down to a crawl, and it's a poster who's engaged in the conversations, then it would be perfectly normal to say it.  If I was having a pub chat and someone said to me "Oh I see that Ichiko Aoba is playing Glastonbury" it'd be perfectly normal for my response to be "Who?" or "Nope, never heard of 'em".

 

I'll concede that a conversation on a forum is very different from commenting on Facebook on some lineup announcement. 

[Sawdusty surfer]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Love to barge into a thread on a foodies forum to loudly announce that I've never heard of a chicken korma.

I prefer chicken tarka.

 

It's like a tikka but a little bit 'otter......

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, Quark said:

Honestly can't decide if this warrants an upvote or a downvote

First one, then the other

[charlierc]

4 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I knew somebody was going to make that gag eventually. Just didn't want it to be me.

Clearly I have less shame.

[Suprefan]

7 hours ago, Ben7amin_ said:

 

Wether its a good or a bad thing music mostly being on demand now - should eliminate this WHO? or i do not know any songs by????  

 

Literally we are in an age where you type a name into google and 10 sec later we can be listening. 

 

Yep I did not Know any Cat Stevens tracks when he was named, Yes I did recognise a couple when i did a little deep dive into him on spotify. No longer worth the time kicking of that you don't know someone now its all self Serve. 

 

 

 

 

 

Nobody cares that you can have all the music in the palm of your hand cause they only listen to what the algorithm says.

 

Would be an interesting experiment if you had to force some young kids who just got into music and stuff to do it like it was done 30 years ago. Go to a record store, find stuff and hope its good. No streaming or anything. Like make them have to use a cd player or record player, and no internet.

[Quark]

1 hour ago, Sawdusty surfer said:

I prefer chicken tarka.

 

It's like a tikka but a little bit 'otter......

Bravo

[CaledonianGonzo]

10 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

 

Nobody cares that you can have all the music in the palm of your hand cause they only listen to what the algorithm says.

 

Would be an interesting e

xperiment if you had to force some young kids who just got into music and stuff to do it like it was done 30 years ago. Go to a record store, find stuff and hope its good. No streaming or anything. Like make them have to use a cd player or record player, and no internet.

 

Radio and MTV existed 30 years ago, as did things like record libraries and listening stations.

[Quark]

7 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

Radio and MTV existed 30 years ago, as did things like record libraries and listening stations.

Yeah, unless you had mates with different tastes the radio was your algorithm.

[Quark]

2 hours ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

 

I'll concede that a conversation on a forum is very different from commenting on Facebook on some lineup announcement. 

Yeah that's what I was getting at. You're right, the FB type comments are a mess.

[CaledonianGonzo]

9 minutes ago, Quark said:

Yeah, unless you had mates with different tastes the radio was your algorithm.

 

Home taping did not actually kill music

[NorthernSoul52]

Home taping solved music.

[Someoni]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

Home taping did not actually kill music

Didn't video do that to the radio starrrrrr

[Suprefan]

3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

Radio and MTV existed 30 years ago, as did things like record libraries and listening stations.

everyone could afford cable and mtv?  Still not the same.

 

 

anyway. I guess we know why The Weeknd prob never plays. And I cant find the gig pricing thread

[CaledonianGonzo]

I know its not the same, but the suggestion that you couldn't try before you bought and that every album purchase was a blind stab in the dark is nonsense.

 

Some fun to be had in the latter, though.

[philipsteak]

The real arseholes use "so called" instead of "who?".

Although it does tend to get used for stand ups more than musicians.

[Quark]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I know its not the same, but the suggestion that you couldn't try before you bought and that every album purchase was a blind stab in the dark is nonsense.

 

Some fun to be had in the latter, though.

 

It was definitely more likely that an album purchase had an element of the unknown. Cash Converters was a great source of cheap album experimentation!

 

23 minutes ago, philipsteak said:

The real arseholes use "so called" instead of "who?".

Although it does tend to get used for stand ups more than musicians.

 

Agreed. The absolute worst.